Billie Frances Prothro

1931 - 2022  (90 years)

• Name	Billie Frances Prothro
  Birth	26 Nov 1931	Midland, Midland County, Texas   [1]
  	daughter of William Frank Prathro and Nancy Irene Terry
  Gender	Female
  Witness-Obituary	5 Oct 2015	Midland, Texas   [2]
  	Joe Mabee, a Midland and West Texas visionary and a legend in aviation and community development, died Saturday at Midland Memorial Hospital. He was 84. Mabee, a kindly prankster bestowed with witty humor and a giving heart and a background in ranching and the oilfields, also nurtured his talent in pursuing well-defined goals in philanthropy. Like his father, Guy Mabee, and his father's uncle, John Mabee, Joe Mabee was steadfast in his enterprises and causes, including successes in the oilfields. And like his father before him, Joe Mabee presided over the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Mabee Foundation established by John Mabee and his wife in 1948. The Mabees were eminently successful in the oil business and generously shared their successes and prevailed over setbacks, never succumbing to failures. Survivors include his wife, Van A. Van Wie Mabee of Midland; sons Guy Mabee of Gordon and John Mabee of Midland; daughters Gail Commagere of Del Valle and Leanne Wilson of Hamilton; 14 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren. Also surviving Mabee is Billie Prothro Mabee Hightower -- mother of his children -- who graduated with Mabee in the Midland High School class of 1949. Mabee was an aviation enthusiast since his youth and a member of the Confederate Air Force. He enriched his flair for airplanes, especially World War II vintage aircraft, and for race cars, especially his father's Guy Mabee Drilling Co. Special, an open-cockpit streamliner. Mabee, then 22, set a world record with the streamliner of 203.105 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1953
  Reference Number	27697
  Death	4 Jan 2022	Midland, Midland County, Texas   [3]
  Burial	Resthaven Memorial Park, Midland, Midland County, Texas   [3]
  Person ID	I27498	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Joseph Guy Mabee,   b. 4 Dec 1930, Lockwood, Dade County, Missouri d. 3 Oct 2015, Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland, Midland County, Texas (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	23 Aug 1950  [4]
  Divorce	26 Feb 1975	Martin County, Texas   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living + 3. Living + 4. Living
  Family ID	F8532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932. [S128] Information printed in the Maybee Society Communicator, Issue 103, October 2105. Obituary from http://www.mrt.com/news/obituaries, Posted: Monday, October 5, 2015 9:01 pm. [S380] Find A Grave; Url: http://www.findagrave.com/, Memorial ID 235668071. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968-2014.